Everyone wants their website to rank well in the search engines but SEO can be difficult to get a handle on when you're starting out, or when you're just too busy trying to keep on top of everything. Fortunately, you’re off to a great start by choosing Wordpress because the platform is already SEO friendly, coming with such functionality as meta tags, clear navigation links, and optimized permalinks.
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We Don’t Just Develop Themes!
We've been working very hard recently on a new theme release (Flexr), and have more new themes in the pipeline. But, it's not only WordPress themes that we're focused on. Most of you visiting the site are probably unaware that we develop a range of WordPress plugins too. It's a large part of our workflow. In fact, we love working on plugins!
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Writing Content (That People Want to Read!)
Nearly all websites have a blog these days, and for good reason. Great content is a terrific way of engaging your audience and a really useful method of building traffic to your site. But just how do you create the kind of content that people will want to read? We’ve put together a few pointers to help you. Some may sound obvious, but they’re worth bearing in mind when you’re writing for an audience (and let’s face it who isn’t!).
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Minn WordPress Theme Updated to v1.3!
Although the last Minn theme release was a while ago we’ve been working hard on new features and enhancements over the last several months – and it’s finally ready. So, what’s on offer in Minn 1.3? Let’s take a look by starting with all the new goodies!
What Have We Been Up To?
You may have noticed things have been quiet around here for a while. But this doesn't mean we haven't been busy. Quite the contrary.
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Case Study: Migrating a Website into WordPress with Minn
In recent years, as web designers and developers we have been moving steadily towards WordPress as the core for most of our web design projects. I would estimate that we are now at around the 90% mark, with the remainder being very niche hand coded sites.
Minn Theme Updated to Version 1.2!
It hasn’t even been even 3 months since Minn 1.1 was released but we’ve already just released a new version of Minn (1.2) which includes a host of fantastic new features! Let’s take a closer look.
Easy Navigation Menu Icons
Using icons in navigation menus is an excellent way to add an extra bit of visibility to any menu. So how can you go about implementing this in your own theme?
Add Customizer Color Pickers for Hover Styles Without Refreshing the Preview Window
If you’ve ever used the WordPress color picker control in the customizer to alter colors relating to hover styles then you may have noticed the user experience isn’t ideal. Surely there’s a better way?
How to Add an Animated FAQ to Any WordPress Site Without a Plugin
Adding a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to a website is often a common requirement. The most basic FAQs can just be a simple list of plain text with the questions and corresponding answers laid out in one continuous list. However, we can do better than that, and without a plugin in sight!